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The Narrowest Houses in the World

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The American people's appetite for increasingly large houses is often cited in postmortems of the financial crisis. A new book, Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design, by Avi Friedman, looks at dwellings that buck that t

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Pine Forest Cabin

Width: 16 feet

Location: Methow Valley, Washington

Designer: Cutler Anderson Architects

Completed: 1999

Site area: Five acres

Footprint: 672 sq

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Pine Forest Cabin

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Pine Forest Cabin

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Outeiro House

Width: 10 feet

Location: Porto, Portugal

Designer: Ezzo

Completed: 2006

Site area: 603 square feet

Footprint: 560 square feet

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Outeiro House

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Outeiro House

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